It focused attention on firearms laws in the U.S., particularly with regard to bump stocks, which Paddock used to fire shots in rapid succession, at a rate similar to that of automatic firearms. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history. The motive for the shooting is officially undetermined. About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413. On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel.
Mass shooting, murder–suicide, mass murderĦ1 (including two victims who died in 20, and the perpetrator)
